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...conference was held at the U.S. consulate after Capt. Gainard had broadcast to the United States an account of his ship's 26-day odyssey after its capture on Oct. 9 by the German pocket battleship Deutschland as a contraband carrier
...letter to Governor Robert T. Jones, and slipped out. For 15 minutes she appeared at the nearby bedside of her invalid, 80-year-old father, then vanished in the night. Police watched her invalid 56-year-old husband, Dr. William C. Judd, in Sawtelle, Calif., Hospital Superintendent Louis Saxe broadcast a promise: she could run the prison beauty parlor if she'd return. One night this week a burglar fled from a Phoenix home, was caught. It was the onetime tigress, near starvation. For six days she had been hiding in a cornfield...
...figuring out that this would mean a daily delivery of 16,666 tons, doubted that the Russian railroads could handle such volume, believed it would take at least a ship a day leaving Black Sea or Baltic ports to transport the fodder. >From Dairen, Manchukuo, came a report, later broadcast from Berlin, that the Russians had agreed to transport 1,000,000 tons of Manchukuoan soybeans over the Trans-Siberian Railroad to Germany within the next few months. Soybeans are used to produce margarine, and oil cake used as cattle fodder. Again it was questioned whether the Trans-Siberian, part...
When every U. S. radio listener was gulping in the bulletins on World War II, just starting, Manhattan's WMCA scooped its competitors. It bought and broadcast the content of secret radio war orders from the German and British admiralties to merchantmen at sea. This was an obvious violation of the U. S. Communications Act, which guarantees the privacy of such communications. In mid-September WMCA was hauled up before FCC to show cause why its broadcasting license should not be revoked. Dismayed, contrite WMCA officials showed what cause they could, and FCC retired to think the matter over...
Last week the Commission issued its decision. Although there was "grave doubt" about the station's "qualifications to operate in ... the public interest," the Commission was of the opinion that "an order of revocation of license need not be entered at this time." Reason: "These particular broadcasts were provoked by the occasion, and are not necessarily indicative of widespread infractions in the course of this station's broadcast activities...